Show this way by LYLE SILENCER Ekl I 1 0 western newspaper anlon union I 1 the cotton picker i C COTTON OTTON Is harvested today ix exactly act lyas as it was when EU ell whit ney invented his bis cotton C aton gin way back in 1793 1703 negroes shuffle among the cotton pla plants fits plucking the fluffy bolls by hand and stuff the them minto into huge begs bags they drag behind thim them the ordinary worker picks about a hundred pounds ol of seed cotton a day for or which he receives about 60 cents great strides have been made in harvesting other crops but in cotton little progress has been made since revolutionary timis times now john and mack rust two 0 farmer boys from texas have chiv lust t brought out a machine to pick cotton on automatically engineers have been trying to build sucha such a machine for 80 years the international harvester company is supposed to have spent on cotton picking te re search it if the rust brothers bro theis sue succeed it will be the greatest invention of this decade john rust got his idea for the picker watching his grandmother at her spinning wheel she moistened her wheel to make cotton stick to it rust uses smooth wet spindles to fan fah through the cotton plants picking clean each boll en an route in trial tests the rust machine has picked as much in inan an eight hour day as a diligent picker can gather gallier in an eleven week season leaion at about hall half the cost cotton plin planters teis believe that it if the ahe ma machine china proves practical pric as they think it will they can grow cotton at a profit it the price drops below ilya fire cents per pound ancient machine guns gun machine guns are MODERN M about the most destructive weapons used in modem warfare capable of firing bullets a minute they can sweep an open field so fast that no human being could hope to get across it alive the machine gun invented by hiram maxim la Is usually thought of as a avery very recent invention actually however the romans had i their ancient equivalent of it lon long g before gunpowder had bad even been thought of the poly bolos bolo g first built by dionysios of alexandria was a crossbow so constructed that it was capable of shooting 30 to 40 arrows a minute the tension string of the bow was operated by a crank the arrows come came out of a funnel above the arrow groove and each time one was fired another slipped automatically into place the machine could be operated by one man reconstructed models of the poly bolos are surprisingly accurate in their aim the only defect being that it had to be trained old on orie one spot so there was no scattering under certain circumstances this was an advantage like preventing the enemy m y from climbing up scaling lin ladders or escaping through a gate this and other ancient weapons such as the hurling sling were once considered so dangerous that the church and the laws ot of some countries condemned their use some of these weapons were indeed dangerous such as the horn born bow which could shoot an arrow 1000 yards an achievement which cannot be equalled equal led bythe by the heavy colt revolver used la in the american army who discovered america VERY schoolboy is told that E christopher columbus discovered america and every schoolboy who believes that is wrong for although columbus was the first man to set foot on the new world he did not touch the mainland of either north or south america on his bis first and second voyages of discovery on his third voyage in august 1498 he discovered the south american co continent in what is nolven now venezuela little suspecting that this was really the terra firma for which he be had searched so long he thought it was only another island off the coast of southern sout herTi asla asia ln in his bis earlier voyage columbus had touched at cuba and other islands island in the carridean Carribe Carri bean aisea sea before Be for be reached the mainland however anil tallan merchant la in the service of henry VII of england named john cabot had explored alone the coast of labrador and as is tar far karsouth south as chesapeake bay baj or maryland but neither golumbus columbus nor cabot ever suspected that they had found a new world both bellev fd they had merely opened up a liiv new route to western asia and the indies kad and that the land they had bad disco discovered vired was wai a remote wid and wild part of the tar far east that thatis if why they called it the west indies indie 1 columbus even thought that cuba was wai a western lipof tip of asia the is W land was not until two year yea rs after hi bis death the tb only bit of land now vr under the american dair that columbus ever touched was puerto pierto rico which he first named san san juan bautista |